Tempol (MH770r)

Tempol (MH770r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tempol is attested here as a man's name. It shows half a human face, drawing attention to the lip (tentli). Below the lower lip and protruding from it is an ornament (perhaps a tentetl or a tezacatl) that is a turquoise-blue. It curves up slightly into a point at the front.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The suffix -pol can mean large or wretched, and this could refer to the lips or chin (tentli). If so, then it is not the name of the lip ornament, per se.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio tēpōl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tempol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Turquoise or Jadeite
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

labios, feos, ornamentos, joyas, turquesa, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ten(tli), lip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
tezaca(tl), a lip plug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezacatl
-pol large or wretched, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pol

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Labios Desdichados

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 770r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=614&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography: 
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tencax (MH604r)

Tezaca (MH626r)